Comment The actual policy (Score 1) 239
I wish I could mod the previous AC up, but I'll have to use my karma instead. Here's a link to the actual subject of the story:
https://www.transportation.gov/AV
Amazing that neither the
Comment Let's use the proper terminology (Score 3, Informative) 50
The correct term for this is backhole.
Comment FLAC bit rate (Score 1) 59
For those who are wondering, the FLAC is 96 kHz, 24-bit. I presume ALAC is the same.
Comment Did they really called it a "feminine accessory"? (Score 1) 48
Reminds me of all the jokes when the "iPad" name was announced (and before!).
And Bloom County's chartreuse flame thrower.
Submission + - Media companies presume guilt on Bittorrent
kripkenstein writes: "The big media companies immediately assume you are guilty by your mere presence on a Bittorrent swarm, an interesting report reveals. Turns out companies like BayTSP will send shutdown notices to ISPs without any evidence of copyright infringment; all they feel they need in the form of evidence is that you are reported by the tracker to be in the swarm. As the report states,
The report also has other interesting details about how companies like BayTSP operate."For my investigation, I wrote a very simple BitTorrent client. My client sent a request to the tracker, and generally acted like a normal Bittorrent client up to sharing files. The client refused to accept downloads of, or upload copyrighted content. It obeyed the law. [...] With just this, completely legal, BitTorrent client, I was able to get notices from BayTSP.
To put this in to perspective, if BayTSP were trying to bust me for doing drugs, it'd be like getting arrested because I was hanging out with some dealers, but they never saw me using, buying, or selling any drugs.
Journal Journal: Office 2007 Not Finished
Has anyone noticed that Microsoft did not finish Office 2007. The new ribbon interface at the top of the application is complete however, when you click on anything that requires a dialog box to open, the interface is the same as older applications. They did not even bother to change the color scheme to match the applications look. I would think that if the selling point is a new improved "experience" that you would want that experience to be throughout the application.
It seems to me that t
Submission + - Google Apps to become paid service
FredDC writes: Business Week reports Google Apps is becoming a paid service soon for companies who wish to use it for their domain. Disney and Pixar are reportedly thinking about switching to Google Apps innstead of using Microsoft Office. Could this be the end of a monopoly? Or the start of a new one?
Journal Journal: Judge: Parents Aren't Liable For Kids RIAA Mis-Adventures
Judge Recognizes That Parents Aren't Liable For Kids RIAA Mis-Adventures
from the it's-about-time dept
Submission + - Senate introduces strong privacy bill
amigoro writes: "US Senators yesterday introduced a bill that better protects the privacy of citizens' personal information in the face of data security breaches across the country. Key features of the bipartisan legislation include increasing criminal penalties for identity theft involving electronic personal data and making it a crime to intentionally or willfully conceal a security breach involving personal data, giving individuals access to, and the opportunity to correct, any personal information held by commercial data brokers, requiring entities that maintain personal data to establish internal policies that protect the personal data of Americans, requiring entities that maintain personal data to give notice to individuals and law enforcement when they experience a breach involving sensitive personal data and requiring the government to establish rules protecting privacy and security when it uses information from commercial data brokers, to conduct audits of government contracts with data brokers and impose penalties on government contractors that fail to meet data privacy and security requirements."
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